Odyssey Magazine

17/11/2025

Ukuthi siyakhuluma.
Want ons praat.
Re ya buwa.
P**a.
Nomasiya thetha.
We are in it deep, together.
Discover this powerful reflection in the poem by on Odyssey Magazine.
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14/11/2025

Film Africa 2025, the UK and Europe’s leading festival celebrating African and African diaspora cinema.

Now in its 13th year, presented by the Royal African Society (RAS), this year’s edition will take place from this week in London from 14-23 November 2025, featuring over 50 films from more than 20 African countries including Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Algeria, and Mali, among others.

Watch the full conversation with ft Lead Curator, Film Africa

14/11/2025

Keith Shiri joins Christa Gumede Buthelezi for a powerful Zoom conversation ahead of the 2025 Festival (14–23 Nov). Bringing his decades of global experience in African cinema to the screen. Renowned film curator and longtime BFI advisor.
A global champion of African cinema, his work spans festivals, research, and publishing across five continents.

Welcome to Odyssey Magazines Conversations with Christa.Keith Shiri is a Zimbabwean-born international film curator and long-time programme advisor, serving ...

13/11/2025

When different faiths sit at one table, something sacred stirs.

An Imbolc ceremony woven with Judaism, Buddhism, Wicca and Christianity. A gentle reminder that light returns in many languages of spirit.
Step into this moment of unity, ritual and renewal on odysseymagazine.co.za

12/11/2025

In this episode of Conversations with Christa, we sit down with Sabine Thomas. Entrepreneur, author, and wellbeing practitioner whose journey to know more about healing on a soul level has created a community of oneness and light.

From global business success to deep soul work and social transformation, Sabine shares her path of healing, purpose, and power.

Tune in and join the conversation. Where stories awaken consciousness.

Welcome to Odyssey Magazines Conversations with Christa.This episode features Sabine Thomas who is a French entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, and wellbei...

11/11/2025

Sound has the power to shift energy, to move what words cannot.

In her article The Healing Power of Sound: Returning to Resonance, Lily-Pearl Schappe-Youens explores how vibration and frequency invite the body back into alignment and calm.

Discover how sound becomes both healer and guide.
Read more https://odysseymagazine.co.za/the-healing-power-of-sound-returning-to-resonance/

10/11/2025

What does it mean to return to self. To remember who we were before the world told us who to be?

In Journey Kwantu, author Vusumzi Ngxande explores African spirituality and identity through a deeply personal lens.

“I knew then that men made things up about God to fit whatever narrative they felt would give them power over others.”

In this insightful book review by Sarah Bullen, we journey through themes of awakening, belonging, and the courage to question inherited beliefs.

Read the full review now on

https://odysseymagazine.co.za/the-journey-kwantu-exploring-african-spirituality-and-identity-byvusumzi-ngxande-book-review/

08/11/2025

Meet Mel Mthembu — the visionary behind iNguquko. His films blend emotion, truth and fearless storytelling, redefining the voice of South African cinema.

Watch the full conversation below.

Welcome to Odyssey Magazines Conversations with Christa.In today’s episode we feature Mel Mthembu who is a visionary South African filmmaker, director, and w...

07/11/2025

The Guest House
Jalaluddin Rumi

Translated by Coleman Barks

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Jalaluddin Rumi

from Rumi: Selected Poems, trans Coleman Barks with John Moynce, A. J. Arberry, Reynold Nicholson (Penguin Books, 2004)

Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd

06/11/2025

In The Trojan Horse, Nicky Rowbotham shares how we can evolve outdated patterns and beliefs from the inside out. Through awareness, courage, and authenticity

Read the full article here https://odysseymagazine.co.za/the-trojan-horse-evolving-outdated-structures-patterns-beliefs-from-within/